Picked up a copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 521
Gongsun Zan was stunned suddenly, and raised his assault weapon. In the distance, there were about a dozen people standing, holding war drums, flags, etc., but they didn't make a sound. They sat on the ground to rest, and Gongsun Zan bent his bow and Shooting, the feathered arrow flew out, hitting the enemy's chest in the distance, and the soldier was directly shot down by this powerful force, without a sound.

Seeing this, the rest of the people jumped up in fright, beat the war drum, and fled towards the rear. Gongsun Zan was afraid that they would attract reinforcements, so he quickly led the rest of the soldiers across the mountain pass one after another without chasing them. Carefully looking around, he moved forward slowly. By the time the more than 2000 soldiers of the Valiant Battalion came out of the mountain pass, those people had long since disappeared.

"Captain, they are indeed suspicious soldiers. The movements we have heard these days seem to be caused by these people. They pretended to deploy a lot of troops here. I think, in fact, this Huacizimo is It's an empty city!" said Sitamu, and he asked again: "Will you send someone to let the army enter?"

"No, just with a few soldiers, we can't be sure about the situation here. If there is an ambush, wouldn't it be a big deal if the army enters in a hurry? It's better to explore around, as long as there are no ambushes around the mountain pass, after the army enters , we can camp here, even if there is an army of enemies here, we are not afraid."

"Please!"

Sitamu cupped his hands and said, Originally, if the search was spread out, the harvest would be greater, but Gongsun Zan did not dare to take such a risk. If there was an enemy army, it would be impossible to command after the scattered troops, and it would be easy to be defeated one by one. Therefore, Gongsun Zan would rather It took more time and they didn't want to take risks. They searched very seriously, and they didn't miss any place near the mountain pass, as long as they could hide the army.

In Malacanda, Nishijia, who hadn’t received a reply from Jia Xu for a long time, was still a little worried. Sitting in the study, she couldn’t read the book anymore, and sighed helplessly. His heart is very complicated and his thoughts are chaotic. On the one hand, he himself is from Guishuang, and he is also a royal family of Guishuang.

In addition, since he was young, he has lived in the Han Dynasty, and has been influenced by Confucianism, and he has been familiar with the scriptures. The Han army suffered heavy losses, tens of thousands of soldiers died in battle in a foreign land, and their bodies were shrouded in horse leather. He didn't want to see such a scene.

As a great Confucian, he also has a heart of compassion for the people, and he does not want to see the suffering of the people on either side.

All his life, he had never hated war so much.

He walked out of the study room and wandered around the courtyard. It was late at night and he couldn't hear any sound. Nishika stood in the courtyard, but he was thinking in his heart how to end the war and how to persuade Jia Xu. He was thinking, There was a voice from the outer courtyard, and he turned his head to look, but it was a servant who came over with Su Poti, and Nishika hurried forward to see him.

Su Poti asked, "Sure enough, the prince doesn't want to sleep either."

"Yes." Nishika sighed.

"How about going out for a walk?" Su Po asked.

Nishika nodded, and asked someone to bring a thick cloak, and personally hung it on Su Vati's body, supported him, and walked out of the mansion. He also comforted Nishijia and talked about some past events. Nishijia listened carefully and agreed from time to time.

"If you think about it, the Han army has already sent troops to the north. I think there are a lot fewer soldiers in the city," Su Poti said.

"Well, General Dong has already set off. In fact, I really don't want the war to end here. If I can convince my nephew. Sigh."

"Do you still remember that the former king once toured various places, and you were there at that time. He didn't want to take you there, you kept crying, but in desperation, he took you with him and asked me to serve him. At that time, I originally I happily dressed up, I wanted to be able to show off with the former king, but I didn't expect that I could only take care of you, a little guy, and you drowned me, so the clothes I was wearing at that time can no longer be worn." Su Poti said .

Nishijia smiled, but couldn't remember those things.

"At that time, the former king came here, on this city wall." Su Poti looked around, and at some point, the two had already reached the city wall. There were not many guards on the city wall, and Dong Zhuo brought a large number of guards. There are only soldiers from the first battalion left here, but Sun Jian and Dong Zhuo are guarding the two exits, so there is no need to worry about someone raiding Malakanda.

"Brother, he is a great king, what a pity"

Su Poti walked to the edge of the city wall, looked at the land outside the city that was sprinkled with silver light, smiled, and said, "This place is still as beautiful as before."

Nishijia looked over and nodded.

Su Poti suddenly asked: "Prince, are you from Guishuang or Han Dynasty?"

"Huh? I'm naturally from Guishuang." Ni Sejia was taken aback, and replied without thinking.

Su Poti stared at him for a long time, his lips trembled, and he asked, "Then, why did the prince betray Guishuang?"

"I did this for the people of Li Shu, why did I ever betray you?"

"Prince, you shouldn't. You shouldn't." Su Poti said, his eyes gradually moistened, he let out a violent cry, hugged Nishika with both hands tightly, and rushed forward with all his strength. Go, even though Su Poti is old, Nishijia who was standing on the edge of the city wall did not react when he threw himself so desperately, and fell directly from the city wall while being hugged by him! !
"Grandma!!" Someone shouted around, and saw dozens of soldiers running out from the surrounding area. They were scouts arranged by Jia Xu to spy on them. After finding out that the situation was wrong, they rushed out. However, obviously, they were too late, Su Vati fell off the city wall while holding Nishka.

When the soldiers opened the city gate and arrived outside the city, Subati still held Nishika tightly, and the two fell in a pool of blood. Nishika fell to the ground first, and his head exploded. But Su Poti's whole body was distorted, and blood was constantly spraying from his mouth. Before the soldiers could react, they also lost their vitality. The soldiers panicked and rushed to report to Huang Zhong.

Huang Zhong ran outside the city wall and saw two lifeless corpses. He gritted his teeth without hesitation, and hurriedly shouted at the soldiers beside him, "Send someone to inform Dong Gong quickly that the envoy is deceitful. He killed them." Nishika!! Withdraw the troops quickly!!", the soldiers hurriedly led the horses and galloped away to Dong Zhuo's camp.

At this time, Gongsun Zan and the Xiaoyong Battalion had already camped on the top of the mountain, preparing to rest. After nearly a day of searching, they did not find anything unusual. Gongsun Zan even took people up to several mountain tops to observe the surroundings from a high altitude. In the situation, no enemy was found, and there was a thick green everywhere. Even so, Gongsun Zan still did not report to Dong Zhuo.

It was just because Gongsun Zan still vaguely felt something was wrong.

If this is really an empty city and there are no enemies, they should firmly guard the mountain pass. When they are about to pass through the mountain pass, they should be attacked. After all, according to the words of the envoy, this is a place for food and supplies. How could the transportation point not guard this fatal exit?Even if a hundred people are arranged to guard here, it can still inflict heavy damage on the Han army!

This is really unreasonable.

Gongsun Zan thought to himself, at night, he didn't dare to relax his vigilance. He set up sentries in many places, and he was not asleep, so he got up from time to time to look around. When he got up for the fifth time, he vaguely noticed No, in the distance, there seemed to be a black shadow moving, like a tree being blown by the wind, but he didn't dare to underestimate it at all, and quickly woke up the soldiers of the Valiant Battalion, and slowly approached there.

As soon as he came to the vicinity, "Shua", a rain of arrows flew over, Gongsun Zan had no time to dodge, an arrow was hung on his arm, but several soldiers fell beside him, the brave battalion was shocked, Gongsun Zan gave an order, and everyone They dispersed immediately, mounted their horses one after another, took the wounded soldiers with them, and galloped away in a hurry, countless torches were erected around them, and war drums burst out! ! !

On the surrounding grasslands, it was Guishuang's soldiers who stood up. They were all covered with turf and lying among the bushes. Before that, Gongsun Zan just kept exploring the valleys where he could hide easily. Humans, they didn't investigate the seemingly ordinary bushes, grasslands, torches that were constantly lit around them, and the feathered arrows flying in the distance, which frightened the soldiers of the Valiant Battalion!

Among the Guishuang army, a general stood up with an angry face. He originally wanted to wait for the main force of the Han army to enter before launching a surprise attack and inflicting heavy damage. However, he did not expect that these Han army scouts would be so cautious. , so timid, searched for a full day, and did not report to the main force, and in the end, he was aware of himself.

He has never seen scouts acting like this before, they don't chase the enemy, they don't go to explore the periphery, they just go around the mountain pass and search constantly, no matter, according to their searching posture, they will be discovered by them sooner or later, and he himself We can only change our strategy. If we don't seriously damage the main force of the Han army, then we will wipe out all the scouts, which will deal a heavy blow to the Han army.

Just as he was thinking, when he looked at the enemy again, this group of people had already run away. They seemed to have agreed on how to escape. They escaped from the gaps that were not blocked by soldiers, sometimes scattered, sometimes closed, Fleeing towards the mountain pass, General Guishuang almost jumped up when he saw it. How could this group of people be so familiar with the terrain here!

If they also escape, it means that Guishuang's plans these days have all failed.

He shouted: "Raise the flag, cut off the passage of the mountain pass!!"

Following his order, a raging fire was burning around the entire mountain pass, lighting up the entire battlefield. Dong Zhuo's army outside the mountain pass also noticed what was going on inside. Dong Zhuo quickly woke up, and the camp was already outside the mountain pass. , he didn't have to dispatch any more, he immediately ordered to go to the rescue!

However, before that, the falling rocks rolled in, and the originally narrow mountain pass was directly blocked by the Guishuang people, and Dong Zhuo's army could not enter. One hop on the road!

(End of this chapter)